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howiemac Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Scotland |
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: say it in verse |
name and form everything is going wrong focussing on name and form worshipping the instruments meanwhile everyone forgets the supreme incorporial one the one who does and gets things done through each of us, through every soul the one who comes to make us whole its just like Christanity when Jesus said 'don't follow me' 'follow the father', and did they heed? no not at all, down on their knees forget the father, praise the son ignore his words, ignore his wisdom they truly are a flock of sheep who follow blindly half asleep they worship Brahma, idolise the Dadis, but don't realise with every bow, with every scrape they stop themselves from being great ( howiemac - madhuban April 2004)
howiemac Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Scotland |
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: |
Janak ----- super server tireless one strong connection to the sun you will be a golden great sure you are one of the eight always working always giving words of wisdom, inspiration thousands bow at your request giving you their bhakti best 'come in closer, come in front I will give you what you want' with someone who has climbed so high you would think one could rely on loving care and tenderness and humble regard for the rest you would think one could expect highest virtue, love, respect but you show some vicious traits surely there is some mistake or are you like the soldier who has to kill, his duty to do outweighs the blackness of the deed with the fruits of faithfulness work so hard at doing good for so long you push and push you huff and puff and stress and strain you show the way time and again for every wrong a hundred rights for every time you twist the knife you give to others help in life I cannot like your monstrous side will not accept your fascist pride but I will turn away my cheek not give the other for you to beat but walk away and will not keep your sins between me and sweet sleep for God is with me I am strong immune to darkness can't be wronged you have no power you have no right without the light there is no might your fear is weakness and your knife is mere illusion for a moment you caused confusion disillusion from which appears calm resolution now see I have no need of help from you or recognition do not need your invitation do not need your approbation you offer nothing and now it seems nothing from you is what I need the drama is so good indeed it shakes me up to set me free it leads me to my one support the only one in times of need who always helps who stays with me unto the end my one true friend my guide you wonderous God supreme you perfect being you golden dream my queen my love you're everything I need and Janak is a pale and sorry mess compared to Shiva's wonderousness the light, the light is clear and bright out of the night I walk to God and leave out all imperfections lying in the broken road behind its simple, easy clean and right there is no risk no downside no fight as paradise comes into sight this wilderness seems less and less this decaying emptiness just disappears in time as the shine of the fine clean jewelled line defines each easy step to the sublime sweet ecstasy is mine (howiemac madhuban April 2004)
howiemac Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Scotland |
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: |
sisters grim sisters, sisters, what's happened to you? once so friendly, simple, true now so prim and oh so proper often grim and fearful too oh so serious, so unsure cold, detached, unfriendly, cruel poor poor sisters i can't reach you wouldn't wish you were untrue wouldn't like to see you fall wouldn't want you to lose it all wouldn't break you if i could but it grieves me so, to see your mood lovely sisters where are you? please unto your selves be true loving, gentle, simple, sure relaxed and happy, radiant, pure open, giving, friendly, free that is how we all should be (madhuban April 2004)
howiemac Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Scotland |
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject: |
next time wacky sisters in a daze smiling with a loving gaze close the door and turn to ice next time round they're not so nice saintly sirens going to seed thinking dirty thoughts indeed guilty whispers, cunning twisters breaking out in psychic blisters frozen stiff, eyes black with fear next time will be crystal clear shafts of light to reel you in coax and pull and tease and spin land and fillet, gut you out throw out all you are about this how its always been never works, but don't give in wacky sisters in a race must be right, they rule the place do exactly as they say wonder why we run away? (howiemac august 2004 Edinburgh)
howiemac Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Scotland |
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:55 pm Post subject: |
black sheep this sheep is a healthy one lively, fit, and lean and strong should be a credit to the flock should be first class breeding stock yet this sheep is under attack just because its wool is black mother says 'it would be right' 'if you had a coat of white' shepherd says that you must go off to where the the grass don't grow you don't look like all the rest because of this you are a pest black sheep no one wants you here you just fill us all with fear in this world you must conform must be no different from the norm black sheep black sheep, go away no one likes you anyway (howiemac madhuban April 2004)
Tete Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 169 |
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject: Say it in a verse... |
Howiemac, Thank you for posting such personal and deeply felt poems. In April 2004 there must have been a strong cosmic change as that is when I felt my pain. It is good to see the mind/spirit process by noting the dates and your inner personal pain. Please provide the date when you left to see the final flow of events. Thank you for providing me with the verse: [The Chains are Imaginary.] It worked...I came out to play. Words are a powerful healing element, just as the spoken word. To combine the two is divine. I could hear a melody in the last two, near to the sublime. Thanks again for sharing your personal experience, wisdom and your words. Keep them coming as a song begins with a verse.............. Regards, Tete
howiemac Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Scotland |
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: Say it in a verse... |
Tete wrote:
Please provide the date when you left to see the final flow of events.
April 2004 - that visit to Madhuban was the end of it effectively, stopped going regularly to the centre a week or two after that (not for the first time..) - though it took me until Summer 2005 to fully realise and accept that I had left and, indeed, I am still working some things out. The stuff that came out in these poems helped me realise the time had come to move on.. Thanks for the feedback and encouragement Tete .
gyaniwasi Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 167 |
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject: |
Thanks for sharing howie. What I find very interesting here (and ironic) is that while the Madhuban experience is usually supposed to strenghten yoga (relationship) within the 'divine family' it actually backfired here One thing that keeps baffling me in several experiences on this site though: how does one become estranged from the cream of 'God's prime creation' (by 'His' own admission) and yet remain tight with Him? There's a Hindu song that says " If the creation is so beautiful, then how beautiful must the Creator be?" If the Creator constantly embraces and praises his creation then how are we mortals to understand these discrepancies you sing of in these poems? [or is it a rhetorical question? ] Thanks again for sharing pal. Gy _________________ "Those were the days my friend ...."
tween Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 9 Location: UK |
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject: |
Powerful and beautifully crafted. These poems are amongst the best I've read, probably because I can actually related to them. Something unusual in poetry
howiemac Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Scotland |
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 7:53 am Post subject: epilogue |
afloat the harbour wants me tied up secure roped firmly to the pier safe and sure but i must push off along the coast drifting free with those i love the most at the mercy of the breeze going with the flow confident enough to tease the storm it will not do me harm I believe and if another boat should come to pull me in or do me wrong I just move on self contained and strong (Aug 2004 Cables Wynd,Leith)
gyaniwasi Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 167 |
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject: |
Good content for xbks howie; not bad crafting too ... Gy _________________ "Those were the days my friend ...."
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